Well, all streaks must come to an end – even Cal Ripken’s iron man run of consecutive appearances. And the same goes for me remembering to post the confidence poll. I forgot to do so at the start of November, probably being disenchanted with baseball due to the whole “Dodgers winning the World Series” thing. The last time I skipped a month was back in December 2021, so it was a good spell. So: let’s crank up the Wayback Machine, and see what we were thinking at the end of the regular season – which, of course, was also the end of the D-backs’ year. • 9% – 1 (not confident in the slightest) • 2% – 2 • 15% – 3 • 11% – 4 • 19% – 5 • 26% – 6 • 11% – 7 • 0% – 8 • 8% – 9 (very, very, VERY confident)

The team wasn’t quite able to build on a season’s best August, but did still r

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